Label does not trigger mouse event

Question

In the pygtk reference it states that every Gtk.Widget has the event enter-event-notify, but with my test code that event is never fired for the Label widget (with

Answer 1

There are certain widgets that don't own a X-window of their own for performance reasons ,since they are mostly decorative an generally don't need to handle X event signals. You can find a complete list here.

In those cases, a GtkEventBox is recommended to wrap the windowless widget with(the EventBox was build with that objective specifically).